Reporters swarmed around a house in Roseville last fall after authorities got a tip that the remains of legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa might be buried under a shed, Ann Zaniewski reports in the Free Press.

Harry Arnold was there, on assingment for Deadline Detroit. But, thanks to a camera-equipped drone, his eyes were in the sky.

"I was flying over 50 reporters who had their cameras on the ground," the 51-year-old Detroiter said.

Arnold runs a company called Detroit Drone out of his home on the city's east side. With his hands gripping a radio controller and his gaze fixed upward on a device he calls a bird, Arnold is hired to take aerial images and videos of construction sites, businesses and houses for sale, and public events.

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